On Saturday, I took our two daughters, Aleta and Karen to Weber Lake. It is now a bog, almost completely filled with vegetation but historically, it had been a lake dammed to store water for irrigation of the orchards in the Westbank area of the Okanagan Valley. Karen and Aleta enjoyed a couple of hours sketching and painting together. This is Karen, painting a picture of Aleta, who is perched on a log that projects out into the bog----

-----while Aleta reciprocates with a sketch of Karen, perched on a disintegrating old tree stump.

White Bog Orchids were growing along the bog edges.

White Bog Orchid

On the way up to Weber Lake, we stopped to check the trail camera that I have at the marshy pond that I call "moose pond", since we almost always get pictures of moose there. This time, however, no pictures had been taken.

It was a very fruitful stop, however, as we found plenty of exciting things to photograph. Among the plants recorded were this Star-flowered False Solomon's Seal.

Others were this Pink Wintergreen----

Pink Wintergreen

---and Green-flowered Bog Orchid

Green-flowered Bog Orchid

There were interesting animals to be seen too, a muskrat swimming out in the open water, a frog, the Columbia Spotted Frog and the empty casing that had been shed by a maturing Dragonfly nymph.

Dragonfly Nymph casing.

The beautiful wildflowers on  the roadsides called for many stops and many pictures. All three of us had our cameras busy. Some of these pictures, such as the one of the dragonfly nymph and the bee on the Yarrow blossom, below, were taken by Karen on her Nikon.

Bee on Subalpine Daisy

Rosy Pussytoes

Bee on Yarrow

An introduced plant, Birdsfoot Trefoil added a splash of yellow to the roadside in an old clearcut. I am confident that here it is an accidental introduction but it has been used in other areas as a forage plant on poor quality soils.

Many of the stems in dense clumps of Birdsfoot Trefoil were loaded with small red bodies, the nature of which are not at once apparent. In other words, I don't know what they are. Are the the beginnings of new blossoms? Buds and partly opened blossoms do have quite a bit of red colour. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_corniculatus

Karen found a tent caterpiller colony on a roadside alder tree.

Tent Caterpillars

These caterpillars seem to be the same species as Elsen and I photographed in this same general area on June 21, 2016, the Western Tent Caterpillar (Malcosoma californica).

Tiger Lillies

The number and varieties of wildflowers on the roadsides was really amazing. Another that I photographed was the Orange Hawkweed.

A rock cut  on Jackpine Road was decorated with Round-leaved Alumroot and this tiny flowered Spotted Saxifrage, together with lichens and mosses.

Subalpine Daisies grew in profusion along the roadside through an old clearcut.

Finally, here are two pictures of a plant that I need help to identify. It too grew along the road through the clearcut.